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Twilight of the Ringnuts

Posted on April 12, 2008
His music has been praised in the most extravagant terms: "He has his half hours." "It's better than it sounds." For fans of Richard Wagner (left), there is no better way to spend 15-16 hours than listening to his singular...

The Future of CBS News: Lame Duck or Albatross?

Posted on April 11, 2008
All glory is fleeting. When CBS News hired Katie Couric a year and a half ago, the move represented a clear break with its past. Couric was sure to bring CBS into the 21st century by completing the People Magazinfication...

CBS News Haunted by Its Past: The Dan Rather Suit

Posted on April 11, 2008
Dan Rather (pictured) sued his former employer last September. Yesterday, most reports suggested that CBS won something of a victory, with headlines such as "Dan Rather's CBS Lawsuit Loses Some Steam," "Court Dismisses Majority Of Claims In Dan Rather's Lawsuit...

Legal Recruiters and Mutual Assent

Posted on April 09, 2008
A legal recruiter sued Akin Gump for a placement fee, and a New York trial court recently granted the law firm summary judgment. The recruiter sent an unsolicited email to a partner of the law firm, attaching the resume of...

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Trek Sues to End Contract with Greg LeMond

Posted on April 09, 2008
At left is Greg LeMond (in the yellow jersey) poised to win his third Tour de France. In 1986, LeMond became the first American to win cycling's most celebrated race. In 1987, he was nearly killed in a hunting accident....

Medellin and Contracts Revisited II

Posted on April 08, 2008
Justice Roberts' opinion in Medellin v. Texas has been praised as "modest and fairly careful." But on the crucial question of self-execution, I find the opinion both bold and confusing. Bold, because I think the petition for cert. was improvidently...

Medellin and Contracts Revisited I

Posted on April 07, 2008
Having now carefully read the Medellin case, I have two more comments to make that relate to earlier posts on contracting with the U.S. government and the enforceability of international agreements as domestic law. Today, I will take up the...

Hazardous Duty Pay for Bloggers

Posted on April 06, 2008
They work long hours, often around the clock. It's a job that estranges them from family and loved ones -- not only becasue of the demands of their work but also because the experience so alters them that they can...

Rhodes Says Air America is in F**n Breach of Contract

Posted on April 04, 2008
This blog has seen its share of radio hosts with contract issues. Now, consider the predicament of liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes, who has a show on Air America. At a recent (off air) appearance on behalf of Air...

More from the Music Industry

Posted on April 04, 2008
No doubt influenced by yesterday's post on this blog about the ailing music industry, the New York Times today reports on what it calls "the ailing music industry," which has now teamed up with MySpace to start a new music...

Jay-Z in $150 Million Contract with Live Nation

Posted on April 03, 2008
As this blog has previously reported, the music industry is being forced to move away from its reliance on a revenue stream coming from the sale of records LPs CDs well, let's just say the music industry is moving away...

Potential Plot Line for "Six Feet Under"

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Metropolitan News-Enterprise is fast becoming one of my favorite sources of contract law news. Last week, the News-Enterprise supplied the basis for a post about chutzpah. Today, the News- Enterprise reports on a fascinating case involving a missing cadaver...

Blogger Wins Book Contract with Regnery Press

Posted on April 01, 2008
The New York Times recently reported that one benefit of blogging is the inevitable book deal that follows. So, it was just a matter of time before this blog's Jeremy Telman (pictured) exploited the publicity for his verse generated in...

Bloggers Sued for Breach of Contract

Posted on April 01, 2008
The Law Professors Blog Network (LPBN) is suing bloggers Franklin G. Snyder (left, top) and Keith A. Rowley (left, bottom) for breach of contract in connection with their blogging activities on the Commercial Law blog, allegedly in breach of contractual...

Transactional Approaches to Teaching

Posted on March 28, 2008
I have been very impressed since (re)joining the teaching profession by the amount of time and energy that law professors devote to pedagogical concerns. This devotion to teaching has been on display recently on the contracts profs listserv, based on...

Contract Law: Fighting Threats to Artistic Integrity

Posted on March 27, 2008
While many contracts scholars were busy discussing Medellin and the CISG, the Smashing Pumpkins were busy suing their former record label Virgin Records for breach of contract. The band is apparently peeved that the label is using its name and...

International Agreements: Once More

Posted on March 26, 2008
Apologies to those of you who are getting tired of the treaties-as-contracts theme,but once more unto the breach! We have had a couple of recent posts, here and here, about the danger that its international partners will be less willing...

Medellin and the CISG

Posted on March 26, 2008
The University of Michigan's Bruce Frier has raised the following interesting question in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Medellin v. Texas (already mentioned on this blog here) yesterday: Does anyone know whether the CISG is among the...

Teaching Transactional Contracts Law

Posted on March 25, 2008
Our faculty, like the faculty at many law schools, is engrossed in the Carnegie report on legal education. Meanwhile, the contracts law professors listserv is bubblin with interesting ideas about integrating practical drafting and transactional skills training into the first-year...

Consumer Law Conference at the University of Houston Law Center

Posted on March 25, 2008
More than 30 experts from around the world will converge in Houston on May 23rd and 24th, 2008 to discuss issues of importance to any comsumer law professor at a conference entitled "Teaching Consumer Law -- The Who, What, Where,...

Medellin and Contracts

Posted on March 25, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court today decided Medellin v. Texas. Links to the opinion as well as extended scholarly discussion of the case can be found, for example, on Opinio Juris, here, and on SCOTUSblog, here, here and here. The crucial...

Mistakes Happen: JP Morgan / Bear Stearns Contract

Posted on March 24, 2008
As the WSJ Law Blog recounts, today newspapers are reporting that the JP Morgan and Bear Stearns deal is being renegotiated and, in addition to shareholder disapproval, this may be due to contract "mistakes." "Mistakes" apparently include an inadvertently included...

A Bad Case of Chutzpah

Posted on March 23, 2008
The Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports on a charming little case called Shalant v. Smith that was recently affirmed by the California Court of Appeals, 2nd District. In 1998, Stuart Smith retained Joseph L. Shalant for $5000 to represent him in a...

Two Reasons Not to Contract with the Government

Posted on March 22, 2008
Although I teach contracts and contribute to this blog, I am not a contracts scholar. My main research interests lie at the intersection of U.S. constitutional law and international law. But in that context, I have been thinking a lot...

To Facebook or Not to Facebook

Posted on March 21, 2008
Do professors have a life outside of class? Or, do they strut and fret their hour up at the lectern, then lie dormant until the next class starts? Well, if any student ever believed the professor disappeared into a void...

The Mortgage Contingency Clause: A Nice Example of a Condition

Posted on March 21, 2008
When teaching the law of contract conditions, I find that the mortgage contingency clause contained in most residential real estate contracts is a palpable example. A simple and recent New York Supreme Court case provides a ready illustration. Plaintiffs/sellers contracted...

Duke Bows to Pressure: Dehydrates Students

Posted on March 21, 2008
The Duke Chronicle reports that Duke University removed water dispensers from campus dormitories because their presence violated the terms of a 10-year contract between Duke Dining Services and the Coca-Cola Company. Under the terms of the agreement, only Coca-Cola products...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Supporting the Troops

Posted on March 20, 2008
MTV films is releasing Stop-Loss at the end of the month. Here's a synopsis from the website: Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries...

Ted Nugent Update

Posted on March 17, 2008
As we previously reported, a Michigan appellate court awarded Ted Nugent $60,000 in contract damages after the Muskegon Summer Celebration (MSC) retracted an invitation to Mr. Nugent to perform at the Celebration in 2003. Last week, MLive.com reported that, after...

Poverty Law Conference at Valparaiso University

Posted on March 17, 2008
I am told that the Valparaiso Univesrity School of Law's Foreclosure Conference announced previously on this blog is already oversubscribed. Those of you who would still like to experience Spring in Indiana might want to attend our Conference on Law,...

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